News list for "Slow fog"

Cosine: Someone pretended to be a Slow Mist employee to cheat, poison and steal coins

Slow Mist founder Cosine posted on the X platform that someone was posing as a Slow Mist employee to cheat, poison, and steal coins, alerting users to pay attention. Mr. Cosine added that he had enough information about the people involved, including another active X account, to advise him to return the stolen funds.

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2025-02-19 14:49:24
RealScamSniffer: Solana chain phishing scam type shifts to mnemonic theft, new users are frequently victimized

On January 22nd, according to Slow Mist Cosine's post on x, according to @realScamSniffer's feedback, the recent phishing fraud in the Solana ecosystem has shifted to stealing mnemonic words. With a large number of new users flooding into the Solana ecosystem, these users have become the main victims and suffered serious losses in capital.

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2025-01-22 11:29:19
SlowMist: A data breach occurred in a third-party service used by a leading trading platform. Please pay attention to the safety of funds

On January 17, 23pds, the chief information security officer of Slow Mist Technology, said on the X platform that it had recently detected a data breach of a third-party service used by a leading trading platform, involving a large amount of employee information, including email, password and other sensitive data. The relevant situation has been synchronized to the relevant parties for processing. The end of the year is approaching, reminding everyone to be vigilant and pay attention to the safe...

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2025-01-17 12:26:17
Slow Mist: Screenshots of cryptocurrency transactions related to actor Wang Xing's fraud case are forged

On January 13, the SlowMist security team released an investigation report confirming that the screenshots of the chat related to the scamming case of actor Wang Xing were forged. The group name in the screenshot is "Fufu Special Group, the buyer places a bet of 14000u". The screenshot mentions that Wang Xing has boarded the car, and the so-called guarantee fee is 14,000 USDT, accompanied by a cryptocurrency address used to collect the guarantee fee. The on-chain data shows that the TRON address...

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2025-01-13 11:05:00
SlowMist: 410 security incidents in the crypto space in 2024, with losses of $2.013 billion, a decrease of 19.02% year-on-year

Security agency SlowMist recently released the "Blockchain Security and Anti-Money Laundering Annual Report 2024", which states: According to SlowMist Hacked, there were 410 security incidents in 2024, with a loss of $2.013 billion. Compared with 2023 (464 incidents, with a loss of about $2.486 billion), the loss decreased by 19.02% year-on-year. DeFi remains the most commonly attacked area. In 2024, there were 339 DeFi security incidents, accounting for 82.68% of the total number of security in...

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2025-01-05 02:00:35
Slow Mist Cosine: ZKasino ranked first in the top 10 running events in 2024 with $33 million

According to the statistics of the security agency Slow Mist, among the top 10 running incidents in 2024, ZKasino, IBXtrade, and Essence Finance ranked among the top 3 in the amount of $33 million, $21.80 million, and $20 million, respectively. It is worth mentioning that Cosine said: "Most of the top 10 running events in 2024 (I am not sure whether they will be returned later) should not be people projects, and it is not necessary to treat people projects completely."

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2025-01-05 01:33:24
Cosine: Forbes has a huge misunderstanding about XMR

SlowMist Cosine commented on the "zombie concept coin" on the X platform. He said: "I don't know about the rest, but Forbes must be full of huge misunderstandings about Monero (XMR)... completely unaware of the'charm 'of this king of the dark web, black hard currency, privacy steel plate..."

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2024-12-03 12:06:26
Cosine: The process of disclosing the address of the DEXX attacker requires rigorous comparison and judgment. If they all rely on Slow Mist, it is difficult to say how long it will take for the final statistics.

For community users, "SlowMist's statistical results are one of the four key steps for DEXX victims to get money". SlowMist Cosine responded: "The'SlowMist Statistics' transaction is not a serial relationship with several others, because the general loss has basically been disclosed in the two or three days after the incident (the stolen market value was greater than $21 million at that time), and the subsequent increase is almost all small losses. If there is still a large amount, we...

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2024-12-01 14:04:41
Cosine: After a user writes a bot with a backdoor in GPT, the private key is sent to a phishing website

According to SlowMist Cosine's post on the X platform, a user will send the private key to the phishing website after writing the bot with GPT code. The reason why the private key was stolen is because the private key was sent directly to the phishing website in the HTTP request body. Cosine reminds that when using LLMs such as GPT/Claude, you must pay attention to the general deception of these LLMs. AI poisoning attacks were mentioned before, and now this is a real attack case against the Cryp...

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2024-11-22 15:34:07
Slow Mist Cosine: Radiant Capital users should cancel the authorization of some addresses in a timely manner

Slow Mist founder Cosine issued a message on X to remind Radiant Capital users to cancel the authorization of some addresses in time to avoid secondary damage.

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2024-10-17 00:03:24
SlowMist CISO: Indodax security issue stems from system attack, not hot wallet private key leakage

On September 11th, SlowMist Chief Information Security Officer 23pds said on the X platform that after analysis, it was found that Indodax was not hacked with its hot wallet private key, but other systems were attacked, such as signature machines. It was previously reported that at 7:00 on September 11, according to the monitoring of Cyvers Alerts, Indodax's wallet carried out more than 150 suspicious transactions on different networks, with a total loss of about $18.20 million, and the suspicio...

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2024-09-11 06:12:05
Slow Mist Cosine: RWA should have many opportunities to integrate with entities in the future

According to a live report, Cosine, the founder of Slow Mist, pointed out in the roundtable forum entitled "Looking at the Possible Path of RWA Linking to New Global Opportunities in the Future": Once RWA is implemented with relevant smart contracts, we must first make sure that there will be no vulnerabilities in it, because everyone knows that as long as it is based on blockchain for asset issuance, it is facing attacks from all over the world.

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2024-09-05 09:27:44
SlowMist: About 55 million DAIs stolen before were sent to different addresses and most of them were exchanged for ETH.

On August 22nd, according to Slow Mist Monitoring, about 55 million DAIs stolen by a user due to phishing attacks were sent to different addresses, but some were again collected in the address 0x8cc568f3565a7ed44b3b0af8765a7ef67b8bc2dc. Most were later exchanged for ETH. Current address holdings: 0xdd6397104d57533e507bd571ac88c4b24852bce9: 6745.88 ETH and about 19.27 million USD DAI; 0x77b9f7e33e42b1f64b915bb27e9a9bca199da83e: 2164.48 ETH; 0xba258b2b0afdbff8a6b4171f2da3ef1ae8071843: 2164.45 ETH;...

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2024-08-22 01:26:26
SlowMist CISO: Immunefi has now received over $30 million bounty service fee

August 6th news, slow fog chief information security officer 23pds on the X platform, said that according to slow fog monitoring Web3 vulnerability bounty platform Immunefi official bounty 10% of the total service fee address, the bounty service fee received so far has exceeded 30 million dollars.

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2024-08-06 05:21:19
Slow Mist 23pds: A North Korean hacker tried to infiltrate cyber security firm KnowBe4 but was found

A North Korean hacker posing as a US-based IT professional applied to infiltrate US cyber security company KnowBe4, but was discovered before successfully gaining access to the company's intranet. The company discovered that the newly hired senior software engineer was actually a North Korean state-level hacker who attempted to hack into the security awareness training company's systems. The fake IT employee had successfully passed background checks and multiple rounds of interviews before joini...

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2024-07-29 10:14:24

7x24 Newsflash

07:40 2025-03-26
Synthetix founder: Market makers manipulate the market for profit through low-float models and option structures
On March 26th, Synthetix and Infinex founder Kain Warwick posted on the social platform, "In the ICO era, if the project party does not reach an agreement with multiple" market makers ", it is almost impossible to complete the financing, and the monthly cost is as high as 50,000 to 300,000 US dollars. Today, these market making agreements have evolved into option structures, and some market makers manipulate the market through low float mode, short at the highest point of TGE, cover at the botto...
07:40 2025-03-26
Whales have purchased more than 130 million OM in the past 20 days.
Chain analyst Ali Yu X wrote that in the past 20 days, whales have purchased more than 130 million OM.
07:31 2025-03-26
Analysis: Bitcoin rally may step into a "bull trap", the next important catalyst may be the US tariff announcement on April 2
Bitcoin's rebound after hitting a two-week high on Monday is facing the risk of death. Against the background of macro uncertainty continuing to suppress market sentiment, it has shown the characteristics of "attracting more traps". Potential tariff escalation and inflation concerns are still suppressing the price of Bitcoin. CryptoQuant data shows that bitcoin prices rose to $88,786 on Monday, but funding rates turned negative, indicating that traders are reluctant to open new long positions in...
07:22 2025-03-26
CZ Confirms Attendance at the 3rd Hong Kong Crypto Finance Forum on April 8
Binance co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) confirmed his attendance at the 3rd Hong Kong Crypto Finance Forum on April 8.
07:10 2025-03-26
26 states in the United States have proposed bitcoin reserve bills
On March 26th, Cointelegraph revealed that more than half of the states in the United States (26 out of 50) have proposed Bitcoin Reserve Acts, with many proposals proposing to allocate as much as 10% of state funds to crypto assets. Wisconsin became the first state to buy a Bitcoin ETF, holding $588 million as of the fourth quarter of 2024.
07:04 2025-03-26
Binance will delist multiple trading pairs such as GALA/BNB and PERP/BTC
According to the official announcement, Binance announced that in order to protect users and maintain a high-quality trading market, it will remove and stop trading the following spot trading pairs at the following time points: March 28, 2025 at 03:00 (UTC): GALA/BNB, PERP/BTC; March 31, 2025 at 23:59 (UTC): USDT/CZK, USDT/RON.
06:48 2025-03-26
A new wallet transferred 1 million FORM from Binance, worth 2.36 million USD
According to Onchain Lens, a new wallet withdrew 1 million FORM worth 2.36 million USD and 1 million USDT from Binance.
06:42 2025-03-26
The total market value of USDT exceeded 144 billion US dollars, setting a new record high
According to DefiLlama data, the total market value of USDT exceeded $144 billion and reached $144.46 billion, a record high.
06:30 2025-03-26
Strategy insiders buy its newly launched preference shares, involving company CEOs, CFOs and other executives
On March 26, according to the Securities Exchange Commission disclosure document, several Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) insiders bought its newly launched preference shares, involving the company's CEO, CFO and other executives, among which CEO Phong Le bought 6,000 preference shares at a price of $85, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Kang bought 1,500 shares, and General Counsel Wei-Ming Shao bought 500 shares. Strategy previously announced that it will issue 5 million Series A Perpetual Stri...
06:27 2025-03-26
Peter Thiel-backed Plasma launches "HotStuff consensus" to enable high-frequency global stablecoin transfers
According to CoinDesk, crypto startup Plasma recently revealed the technical features of its stablecoin-specific blockchain, which uses a "HotStuff-inspired" consensus mechanism and promises to enable fast and efficient global stablecoin transfers. HotStuff consensus is a Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) mechanism that allows the system to reach consensus even if some nodes fail or behave maliciously. Unlike traditional BFT systems, where each node needs to confirm multiple times back and forth, t...
06:03 2025-03-26
The BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF bought around 480 BTC yesterday.
The BlackRock Spot Bitcoin ETF bought about 480 BTC worth $42 million on March 25.
05:54 2025-03-26
The North Carolina bill would add cryptocurrencies to the state retirement system
North Carolina lawmakers have introduced two bills in the House and Senate that could allow the state treasurer to allocate as much as 5 percent of various state retirement funds to cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin. The House Bill 506, introduced by Rep. Brenden Jones on March 24, would create a separate investment agency under the state Treasury.